obama in 2009 after they did away with the cia's interrogation program and it is designed for exactly this situation. to go in and to interrogate suspected terrorists immediately after their apprehension. i have been told prior to this that this group was on stand-by and ready to go. that's the next thing we're looking for. trying to get intelligence and information out of this individual because the big question here, diane, that the entire intelligence community has been focused on is whether or not these brothers were acting alone or whether or not they were part of a larger group and there could be other plotters out there. >> again, martha raddatz, we know his older brother had gone back to russia. we have a kind of dark age in there for a few moments when he was back in russia. we have no idea where he went. >> reporter: we have no idea. he was there six months. so, that's a period they're really going to look at and if they can interrogate this suspect, they will do that, the younger brother. they will ask him whatever they can find out from him, if he's

in good enough shape to answer those questions. i think it shows unbelievable discipline tonight that they did not fire back. that volley of fire we heard, apparently was just coming from the suspect. and they did not fire back. that's -- we were talking about that earlier, diane, that tactical patience. they didn't have to fire back. they wanted that suspect alive and they just waited, cordoned off that area, made sure he was going nowhere, sent in that robot with that camera. they were in no daungdanger at point. they could send in the robot and watch from that command center and that robot and see what the robot was saying. as of right now, they have a suspect who is alive, which is -- i cannot tell you how valuable that will be going forward to see if anyone else was involved. as jon karl said, if there is any international connection. >> i want to just tell everybody else the boston police

department is sending out his own tweet, "captured, the hunt is over, the terror is over, justice has won. suspect in custody." and, of course, that is the work of the boston police department. as you've been pointing out, martha, so much more to be done on discovering any ties overseas, anybody else involved. i've told we also have another audio of the gun fire and now that we know it's coming from inside the boat out, we'll stop and listen to this new audio we've just received. martha, as you listen to that, that sounds like nonstop gun fire. >> it certainly does sound like nonstop gun fire. also, i think what might have been used and brian mentioned a stun grenade. i think it's more likely a flash bang grenade. theye not meant to harm

anyone. it meant to disorient and confuse people. they wouldn't send in a smoke grenade. these flash bang grenades may have been part to disorient and confuse, keep humim alive. that might explain some of the witnesses that you've been talking to tonight, boy, that was a robust round of fire that we heard and obviously much closer up than the audio we heard before. >> tell me more about flash bang grenade and exactly how it stuns, disorients, confuses. >> reporter: if anybody's seen "zero dark 30" and the raid of the osama bin laden compound, it's just meant to -- it's a loud bang. it disorients, it confuses. what is that explosion over there? same thing, if you watch that raid, it's -- having the power out, they had the night vision goggles, they -- that helps them, that gives the law

enforcement an advantage. then they throw in the grenades. i'm not positive they did that. i'm just saying that is a likely thing they could have done then, because it wouldn't have hurt him. but it might give them yet another advantage to make him more confused and disoriented. maybe when they're sending in the robot. >> dick clark, item tell us how quickly they would move in to start talking to him. >> well, depends upon what the doctor's allow, frankly. if the doctors can patch him up and get him to where he could talk, then there's an issue of whether or not they have to mir r mirandize him. there are some circumstances under the law where they do not have to mirandize him right away if they think there's an imminent threat. they can ask him questions without giving him his rights. but i don't think at this point leit'sar there's threat. tell m

the team they send in to talk to him. how many people send to go inniin i initially the. >> well, it's a small ground of people talking to him, but they're backed up by a large interagency team. the people that go in to talk to him have had training in interrogation, in psychology. they'll try to be friend him. they will try to get him, perhaps, if he's religious, they'll pray with him. that's been done before. they'll give him a koran. they'll build up a relationship. and then they'll tell him very subtly that he's being charged with conspiracy to murder, murder, threatening use of weapons of mass destruction and all of those are potentially capital offenses. and that maybe, if he talks, and reveals over people's involvement, well, maybe he wouldn't get a death penalty.

>> i want to two to bianna golodryga, who has done such incredible reporting, talking to the suspect's father, all along, you've been on the phone with him again. you reached him? >> reporter: i just got off the phone with him one minute ago. this is father of these two boys, he had been waiting to hear news. he had no indication of what was going on. he hasn't been following as we have. and so i told him that his son was found, that he is alive, that he is en route to a hospital, we believe. and he said, "thank god." he repeated to say. that he began to cry. and said thank you to us for relaying this news, this was the first he's hearing of it. he's been waiting to hear all night. i asked him if he had anything to say to his son now, and he said, just tell police everything. tell them everything. i don't understand what happened. i don't understand why. i don't believe that you did this. just been whoest. he's happy he's alive. what he said to me is, unfortunately, i lost one son b

one survive for now. he said he's on his way to the states. i asked when, he didn't tell me when. he didn't tell me if he purchased a ticket yet. i will be in touch with him, should he, in fact, arrive here in the states. >> again, any sense how close he has been to his son for whom he had such dreams of the future? >> reporter: that's right. he was in medical school, an aspiring doctor. he said he spoke to him three days ago after the bombings on monday and hasn't spoken with him since. >> on the phone with us again, nicholas, another eyewitness, phoning in from the neighborhood. and you can give us a sense of what is happening there in these houses up and down this street where, impossibly, the suspect was found. nicholas? >> yes, hi. i'm here, yeah, i'm here. i'm here with my wife and daughter came down. yes, it's crazy. everything seems to be breaking up. they're reversing, you know, the whole parking lot full of cars

that was our street. and people are out, you know, outside thanking the officers and, you know -- >> some of these people have been on shift for almost 22 hours at this point. >> yes, and they're supposed to be very professional, they have a job to do, but they're very thankful and i'm glad it's over, too. >> we are looking at the cars, they seem to be picking out. did you hear any cheers going up? >> mostly applause. pretty somber. a lot of applause and very earnest thank yous. >> yeah, people aren't going nuts. they're more just, like, sincerely thanking them. i think everybody is kind of wound up. we're right here, but we feel like we're the last ones to know what's going on, because we've been hiding as opposed to kind of listening to television. our television is on the first floor, we were afraid to go there, so -- >> so, you were hiding where? >> oh, we were keeping on the second floor, just because we could kind of see better what

was going on and also with explosives and everything that had been in the past couple of days, it just seemed safer. we weren't prepared to hide in the basement, we wanted to have some sense of what was going on. >> do you have a sense of full relief tonight or are there still nerves, still residual nerves? >> it's still mostly just surreal, like, nothing that happened today seemed like it has really happened. so, it's hard to feel like it's over, because it seems like we're still watching a movie. >> well, again, we thank you for calling in. all these days, all these hours. i do believe we have some tape of some people in the neighborhood. we're not saying they're law enforcement at all. but we can hear the moment they got the news. can we play that? [ applause ]

>> and i want to go back, if i can, to linsey davis, because linsey, you have be right there. you've been watching the cars start to stream out. what is the procession like as they are moving out of this neighborhood? >> reporter: let's go back, rob, if we can, so we can see the crowd over here. people so extremely celebratory. as you can see, there's basically been a parade of vehicles. "usa, usa" chants throughout the crowd. just a little while ago, we had one of the first armored vehicles come through and he had a loud speaker that he was able to talk to the people in the neighborhood, they were cheering and saying thank you. and he said, it was a pleasure, it was a pleasure and he started "usa" and he said, "bpd" for boston police department. we have another batch of heroes,

people are revering these police officers. they've been feeling, you know, terrorized, not just since 2:00 this morning, but essentially since monday, you know, so, a huge sense of relief. and more and more people, as you can see, hundreds of people out here to cheer on and thank all of the police involved in this abopprehensio apprehension. >> and the police department sending out yet another tweet, which is in the thoughts of all of us. "in our time of rejoicing, let us not forget the families of martin richard, krystle campbell, sean collier and lu lingzi." in case someone didn't hear it, bianna, i would like you to repeat for everyone once again, your phone call with the father of these brothers and what he said to you, the first thing he said to you. >> he said "thank god."

he started crying. he's been waiting. he hasn't had any indication of what was going on. i called him. this was our fifth conversation of the day. and he was just full of emotion. and he said that he thanks us for calling him, for being in touch with him. and, again, i asked him, what do you want to say to your son? we know right now that he is in custody, on his way to the hospital. he said, just tell police everything. i still don't believe it, but tell them everything. he also said he's on his way to the states. he didn't say when he would be coming. but he'll be coming to the hospital. and he ended the conversation by saying, unfortunately, i lost one son, but the other one appears to be alive right now. >> pierre thomas, i want to go back. over and over and over again, i keep thinking what a close call this was, what a narrow miss this was, if it weren't for dave hannebury walking in his backyard to see the boat he loved so much, what would have happened, now that we know that he's alive and that he was

capable of firing those rounds we heard. >> reporter: diane, i have some breaking news for you. doj official says on background that, again, the suspect is in custody, is alive and that no miranda warning is going to be given. that the public safety exception is being invoked by the department of justice and law enforcement. in order to do a limited and focused interrogation. this is done, in part, when they want to make sure there's no continuing imminent threat. >> and, again, legally, does this in any way imperil their case later if they don't have a miranda warning. >> reporter: now, again, i'm not an attorney, but what this source told me is this is the only recognized exception. in this case, seen or taken by the supreme court. >> and dick clark, weigh in on that, please. >> i'm not a lawyer, either, but my understanding is that any information he gives them, prior

to getting his miranda rights probably cannot be used against him in a court of law, but it seems to me they've got enough information against him already. >> i was asking you earlier who would go in the room, what kind of people, how they would talk to him. and they will be recording every single thing that happens from the moment they pick him up, yes? >> there will be video recording and there will be one or two people that will build that personal rapport. but on the other side of the glass wall is going to be a team representing the cia, representing the fbi, representing homeland security. this is the new procedure to get around, as pierre mentioned earlier, the problem that they had in the past when there were abuses by cia interrogators. so, now, everybody is involved behind the glass wall, although there will be one or two people who will be talking to him, on behalf of this interagency team

of intelligence experts. >> well, again, for these tense, anxious and dedicated law enforcement officials, for all of the people in the hospital, this is a moment that they possibly couldn't have dreamed would come this quickly. i just want to tell you again, that the boston police department said, the message they sent out was this. "captured. the hunt is over. the search is done. the terror is over. and justice has won. suspect in custody." we did not know we would hear this. we did not know that we wouldn't be going days more, martha raddatz, before we knew what had happened. >> reporter: boy, that's exactly right, diane. we had no idea how long this would last and to have it resolved so quickly is really quite extraordinary. now, we are hearing, pierre thomas has confirmed that the suspect is not in good shape. and you can imagine he's

probably not in good shape. he may have been in that boat eight or nine hours. the only thing i would say is, he managed to get into that boat. he obviously had to walk to that boat. i'm not exactly sure, because i'm not there, how far away it was from where a car was abandoned, but he did manage to make it into that boat, but obviously was bleeding quite profusely and is not in very good shape. but they are going to do whatever they can right now to keep him alive so they can talk to hip. i'm sure they're working on his feverishly right now to make sure he doesn't lose anymore blood. >> yes, we talked earlier about the irony that the same doctors who raced to save his victims are now going to be racing to save him. so they can hear what he has to say. i want to put back up, if i can, "the boston globe" cover, because great newspaper, great city. and that is a great picture of law enforcement.

"bombing suspect in custody." brian ross, you are still out on the streets, as well. tell us what's going on around you. we may not have brian able to hear me right now. linsey davis, if you can hear me, if you can hear me -- >> reporter: yes, diane. >> i seem to be hearing the cheering going on. >> reporter: diane, this is essentially become like an inpr inpromtu parade. every single vehicle comes out of here, people yelling, "boston strong, boston proud." and as well, the police officers have been responding with thumb's up and fist pumps. lots of computement here. just a huge sense of relief, of excitement. people are feeling that they have gotten back what perhaps they lost on monday.

>> yes, they're cheering every car that goes by. do you have a sense that it's -- that this is a complete exit now, fwichb that ygiven that yo every one of those cars head in? >> reporter: i think that there are still more cars to come, because we've been here since 3:00 this morning, dozens of cars have been streaming into this perimeter all day and certainly, we have started to see in the afternoon, a number of those cars starting to exit the perimeter, but as soon as we think it's over, there's still more vehicles to come. and it doesn't seem like this crowd is planning of dispersing any time soon. people out here with their kids, you can see, it's -- it's like a block party. everybody in the neighborhood seems to be descending on this area. and hopeful that more cars are coming and we can actually see more police car activity, not necessarily driving all the way down here just yet. but quite a number of police cars still down this way.e've b

shouting "boston strong." i want to go back to brian ross, i understand we now have him able to hear me. brian, tell me what you've learned. >> reporter: well, i was just talking to the state police here who indicated that he is on his way now, the suspect, to mass general hospital. they described him as in serious if not critical condition. so, he's not in good shape. when they got there, they say he was sort of half hanging out of the boat. he had been bleeding extensively. the spokesman could not say where the bleeding was but that apparently it was a result from the gun fight the night before. they point out it was 22 1/2 hours after they began searching for him that they did find him. he was in the stern of the boat. they tossed in two or three of the flash bang grenades, if i have that terminology right, martha, in the bow of the boat, to stun him and to make him essentially unable to operate and they say he was so weak, he an thesn't able to do ahi

took him into custody and he was not -- he was not wearing a suicide vest. >> not wearing a suicide vest. again, earlier, we heard an eyewitness say she heard police talk about the fact that he had tried to peek out from under that cover that was on the boat. and you say it had been 22 1/2 hours then, brian? >> reporter: since they began looking for him, by the time they got him. and, in fact, the spokesman is saying there was a tarp on the top of the boat, diane, and the robot is designed, apparently, to rip off tarps and that's what it is, and exposed him to the elements and made their job much easier. that was the story of their success in bringing him into custody. >> well, again, we had even heard that the robot was able to kick the boat to at least disorient him and possibly prevent him from keeping firing straight. did they say anything to you about what kind of guns he had with him if he had no suicide vest?

>> reporter: no vest. he did have a weapon. he fired extensively. there may have been one officer who was slightly grazed. not at all serious. other than that, it's just a day for celebration for the law enforcement people who really have been here about 22 1/2 hours. >> yes, and for their, as martha said, their strategic patience in approaching that boat. i know we're expecting a press conference very soon, ten minutes, maybe 15 minutes at the most, brian? >> reporter: maybe seven or eight. they're trying to make it right at 9:30, i'm told, and we'll have everyone here from the head of the state police to the head of the fbi, the u.s. attorney, the governor, lots of other folks. there was a little bit of frayed tension between law enforcement at some point in this, but that's gone away now. a lot to celebrate together. >> and more phone calls for pierre thomas. what are they saying now?

>> reporter: diane, one of the things that we can report now is something called the federal government's high value detainee interrogation group. which is a special group that is used for high value terrorism suspects is being used to do the questioning, if this young mansur vives tonight. law enforcement officials, again, are saying they invoked the public safety exception where he's not going to be read any miranda rights. that they are going to make a premium in getting information. they are very concerned about an ongoing imminent threat. they want to get questions answered, so, that's why they are invoking this rather unusual rule. >> again, he's at mass general hospital, we are told by brian ross. the security must be descending there in droves. >> reporter: well, there will be massive security around the suspect. if he survives. law enforcement officials, again, are taking no chances again, because they want to know, is there anything else out there? is th

know, even though everyone's happy that this suspect is in custody, there are some ongoing concerns about ongoing threats. >> well, again, we are hearing the cheers, we are reading everything you all are writing online and on twitter and the people of boston, we hope, are feeling the entire country with them tonight in this moment. martha raddatz, i want to go back to you, because the moment that we understand the police were able to move in, you heard brian tell us that apparently hay had they had a robot that could peel back the cover on this boat. >> reporter: that's what we were saying earlier, just surmising what the robots can do. they are pretty amazing. and they can go up to and area, they would peel off tarps, maybe not on a boat, but they are designed to peel off tarps from anything because often times, bombs are covered by things. and those robots.

t have that grasping hand. and i'm sure what they did is, they just sent that robot in, raised the arm of the robot, had it grasp that tarp and probably pulled pieces of it so they could see inside. so they could disorient him, to throw in what we were talking about earlier, too, were those fl flash bang grenades. they won't hurt him, but they will confuse him. they give the police an advantage and make him even more disoriented and not know what he's doing. again, the condition of the suspect, not good. but if you figure he could get up and fire that automatic weapon the way he did and get into that boat, maybe they got to him in time and with that medical care and that amazing medical care in massachusetts and massachusetts general hospital, he -- we'll hope that he makes it, we'll hope they can talk to him. >> of course, i keep thinking,

if he can get up and fire that weapon, when dave walked out of his house thinking it's a kind of all clear and walks back to that boat, looking, seeing the blood on it, that weapon could have been fired at him, too. >> reporter: yeah, it should be could have. it sure could have. and he's a very lucky man, he got out of there. we're all so thankful to him that he noticed that blood. i suspect that blood was on the tarp from the suspect trying to get into that boat, the young man trying to climb into that boat and as brian pointed out, surely he was wounded in the fire fight the night before. and spent a great deal of time in there. i may know more about flash bang grenades but brian is better at math. it was 22 hours, not eight or nine. >> a lot of tweets going on. bianna? >> you remember, this is a 19-year-old boy, described as o,

you think about how many hours and days he's probably gone without food or water or sleep. who knows. and the fact he was still able to remain alive for so many hours wounded. if that's a fact. >> and pierre, just from your law enforcement sources, and i know they are always careful to keep their equilibrium in these moments. can you hear in their voices the relief? >> reporter: i absolutely can, diane. i absolutely can tell you that law enforcement officials are breathing a sigh of relief in terms of the suspect , this particular suspect no longer posing a threat in that area. they are very, very happy about that. but one official said, there's a lot more work to be done. we need to know if there's an ongoing threat. if there are other people out there. they hope to begin to get those answers, if the young man can survive. >> i want to go back to mary so

the phone with us, also an eye witness and lives on the street. mary, it's diane. what are you hearing outside your window? >> what i'm hearing right now is cheering from people in the area, i hear them saying "usa, usa," "they got him," stuff like that. >> and how close are you? to the backyard where this happened? >> i can -- if i look out my -- the window in the back of my house, i can see literally into the yard, the whole of the yard. >> and do you know dave, do you know the couple who lived there? >> i don't know them very well, but i do -- i do -- i have seen them around. >> what is it that you'd most want to say to them? >> thank you for actually going out of your house when we got the all clear. >> yes, and for instantly reporting it. quickly, kwquickly

police moved up and down the street, telling people get back in get back in. people dived into the houses of their naubeighbors, they couldn get back home and some of them went down on the floor. we are expecting the news conference right now. we think the officials are arriving. we assume it is governor deval patrick coming in and mayor thomas menino and the police chief, the whole team coming in. we have been reading their tweets. we have been hearing from them what it means to them for those who were injured, those who died, those who are still in the hospital, that they're able to say, "we did it. we got this suspect tonight." and brian ross, you're there on the scene -- >> reporter: yes, i'm here. i'm out of the camera range because i want to make sure we have a good, clean shot of governor patrick as they come in here. but there is -- you can

sense of jubilation here. we'll get some details, i'm told now there may have been a few rounds shot at him in the boat and -- but he is in serious, critical condition. fair amount of bleeding. you can see the officials shaking hands and we're getting an official two-minute warning. but these officials were all in a command center where they quickly went and you can see right there, looking at that, the man with the glasses there, leaning over, that's the head of the fbi here and behind him, turning around there is the governor of massachusetts and they are quite happy to have this ordeal over and it's amazing to think, diane, that monday afternoon at 2:50, everything changed for people in the boston area. that great day, that storied marathon became the site of an

days, they have resolved it. >> and we are here at 9:30 at night eastern time and even the trajectory of this evening, brian, because governor patrick had come out and said to everyone, look, we're going to give you the all-clear to go back out of your houses again and then suddenly -- we saw what happened. >> reporter: exactly. they essentially came out, said, well, it looks like he got past the perimeter and we're not going to be able to have the lockdown and we'll have to find him leader, because we're not going to get him right away. and then it was literally, i'd say about 28 minutes after that when they got the report of somebody saw him in the boat in the backyard. >> and as happens so many times before, it was ordinary american who broke this case at that moment. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. and did exactly what

enforcement always asks people to do and sometimes we scoff at it because seems so simplistic. if you see something, say something, and that's just what happened. and, of course, to see a bleeding man in your boat in the backyard in the middle of april is quite something to see and whoever he was, he didn't belong there and it worked out well and they were fortunate, because according to federal authorities, this 19-year-old man was really a cold blooded killer. the charges against him will be essentially that he placed a bag with a huge bomb right at the feet of a family that included an 8-year-old boy and his younger sister and really a man who, according to prosecutors, will make the case -- and here is the governor and in the wheelchair, the mayor.

>> i thought you all went home. we are -- we are so grateful to be here right now. we're so grateful to bring justice and closure to this case. to those families that lost loved ones or suffered injuries to live with for the rest of their leaves. for a police officer, a young man starting a career at m.i.t. and a police officer with the nbta who almost lost his life. and for neighborhoods that lived in fear for an entire day, we are eternally grateful for the outcome here tonight. we have a suspect in custody. i want to thank all of the partners who worked tirelessly over the last four days including the fbi, the transit police, our brothers with the

boston police department, the u.s. attorney's office and the support that we've gotten from our governor over the last four days. we're exhausted, folks. but we have a victory here tonight. but let's not forget those people along the way. thanks very much. governor? >> thank you, colonel. well, on behalf of the officer lost last night, the police officer injured, on behalf of the hundreds of people who were hurt by the explosions at the marathon, i want to say how grateful i am to the colonel, to the special agent in charge, rick deslauriers, all of the law enforcement who worked so hard together -- together -- to bring us to tonight's conclusion. it was a very, very complicated

case, a very challenging case. and there are still some questions remaining to be answered. but as the colonel said, because of that extraordinary collaboration and cooperation by all of these law enforcement resources and assets and more to the point, people, professionals, who brought their a-game, we have a suspect in custody tonight. i want to also just thank all of the members of the public for their extraordinary patience, their participation in this investigation by reviewing photographs of their own and others that were through the media. and we thank you for that. and helping us narrow in on these -- on these suspects. they were helpful and patient and we are grateful for that, as well. it's a night where i think we're all going to rest easy. carmen? >> good evening.

i'm united states attorney carmen ortiz and i have to say that both the governor and the colonel have put it tremendously well. tonight we feel a tremendous sense of gratitude and relief. the ordeal that this community, especially this neighborhood, has endured over the last 24 hours, tonight, we can sleep a bit easier. and all of the unpredictable, horrific and yet heroic acts that have occurred over the last several days, starting with the terrible bombing attacks that occurred on monday, here we are. and not forgetting the victims of the crimes that have occurred over the last several days. the victims of the bombings, as the governor said, martin, lingzi, krystle, sean collier.

tonight, you're going to have many questions, but i want to say, as i said the last several days, this has been a very active and ongoing investigation. and although for some of you, tonight is a closure, for me, the journey continues. and so this will continue to be an ongoing and active investigation as we sought all the details, continue to evaluate a tremendous amount of evidence and file our formal charges. but i will say this. i have never been prouder to stand with a tremendous group of law enforcement here, from the colonel to the commissioner to my federal colleague, rick deslauriers with the fbi. all of the agencies, state and local departments that have worked so hard, so hard since the attacks on monday. so committed and putting their

lives on the line, as we fought the last 24 hours to try to get a suspect into custody. and so, my journey and my office's journey begins and this investigation will continue. so, we'll not be able to provide the details that you may want at this time, but as the days continue, you will get answers to those questions. thank you. mayor in. >> i just want to say, very briefly, thank you, thank you, thank you. thank you to the law enforcement officials for working together, state police, boston police, fbi, all working together. that's when government works the best. i want to thank also the citizens out there. for the last week, when the unknown was happening out there because of the m booing ibombi marathon. but today, because of the hard works of so many individuals, boston place working together with the state police, we have a

conclusion that we're all satisfied with. and for the folks that lost their lives this past week. we'll go on. we're a better city than what happened this past week and we'll get better. and to you folks in the media, thank you for the support you gave us. it wasn't easy. some days you said to us, why, let me tell you -- they're working hard, but i spent a lot of time with the law enforcement officials. they work so hard this week to come to a conclusion, tonight, today, tonight, we say thank you to them for the work they did. every one of those leads that we got, so significant that came to the end of this case today. now it's up to to the federal courts, but i tell you, i feel so good about this, i tell you. i'm so happy. as the people of our greater boston area will be able to sleep tonight because of the work of these individuals.

>> good evening. my name is rick deslauriers, i'm the special agent in charge of the fbi's boston division. it seems like many months since monday, april 15th, the day of the boston marathon bombings. yet it has been merely five days since the tragic explosions that took three lives, critically injured over 180 spectators and instilled terror and fear among the citizens of the city of boston, the commonwealth of massachusetts and elsewhere. today, the city of boston, the city of cambridge and the city of watertown and many other communities can breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that two perpetrators who caused so much pain and anguish, are no longer a threat to our personal safety and to our communities. together, with the action and support of our joint terrorism task force partners, many of which are on the stage with me this evening, thend

partners remain vigilant and continue to follow through thousands of leads and sifted through hundreds of tips, through thousand of man hours to reach this moment. this was truly an absolute intense investigaon and i do emphasize, a truly intense investigation. as a result of that, justice is being served for the victims of these terrible crimes. i want to personally express the fbi's profound thanks to each of our partners for bringing us to this moment here this evening. no one agency alone accomplished this critically important task of keeping the city of boston and the commonwealth of massachusetts safe. thank you very much and i support you -- i thank you for your support of our media campaign the other day, which publicized the photos. i thank you very, very much for the support the media provided with us on that. it was phenomenal. i thank you all tonight. thank you. >> commissioner davis?

>> four days ago, my city was ruthlessly attacked. there's no explanation of the savagery here. i spent the last several days looking at hundreds of hours of videotape. i got to see how brutal that attack was over and over and over again. but more importantly, i got to see what the boston police officers who responded to that scene, along the medical personnel and the other first responders did to put people back together. tourniqu tourniquets. putting a man who was on fire out with their hands. these are the kinds of things that came out of this savagery. makes me proud to be a boston police officer. it makes me proud to be apart of this team. rick deslauriers from the fbi could not be more cooperative. we've sat together almost hour for hour for the last four days, sharing every single bit of information in a real team. colonel alben, the same way.

carmen ortiz, with us all the time. and then, to bring the governor and the mayor together, leading the city of boston in responding to this. i finally just want to say that the citizens of this city has been incredible. they've been patient with us. they've endured heartache and aggravation over the last four days. we're very happy to try to put this back together. thank you. >> watertown police chief devoe? >> as the police chief of watertown, i can't be prouder of my community and the men and women of the watertown police department. what we've been through the last 24 hours, i wouldn't want to see another police department go through. the support that we've had from all the different agencies that have been mentioned tonight over the last 24 hours th s has been incredible. to see everyone working together with the mayor, the governor, here in watertown has been really great. i've spoken to the people of

watertown before, but i can't thank you enough. the community stood strong it was a call from the resident in watertown, we asked you to remain vigilant and you did. we got that call and we got the guy. so, we can't thank you enough. you've done everything and more that we've asked. extremely proud of law enforcement today and what we've accomplished. thank you. >> chief mcmillen? >> i just want to thank all of those who have send their thoughts and prayers to officer donohue and his family. please nknow it was extremely appreciated. i want to commend all the law enforcement agencies that took part in this. this is truly dedication at its best. i'm proud to be part of it. >> special agent in charge of the ati'm the special ajengent

>> come and here. there you go. >> today, the entire world witnessed this law enforcement community's commitment to apprehending these defenders. make no doubt they will never cease in its protection of every city, down and neighborhood in this nation. the prayers continue to go out to the victims as they heal from this senseless act of violence. may god bless the citizens. >> district attorney dan connolly? >> thank you very much. i was listening to the police action all afternoon on the radio and i'd like to join my voice or add my voice, i should say, to those who came before me to say what an extraordinary police operation across all jurisdictions that i was able to listen to and witness today. i was down at the scene early on and in our business, carmen,

myself, it's about accountability and i can't say how happy i am, how pleased i am that is second subject was taken alive. this will really ensure accountability for the victims and their families. so, congratulations to all for a job very well done and now the task ahead for accountability. thank you. >> we'll take questions. >> how did the event transpire at the boat? >> there was a call that came into the watertown police, three boston flifpolice officers, alo with state troopers and fbi agents responded to franklin street. a man had gone out of his house after being inside the house all day, abiding by our request to stay inside. he walked outside and he saw blood on a boat in the backyard. he then opened the tarp on the top of the boat and he looked in and saw a man covered with blood. he retreated and called us. we set up a perimeter around that boat and over the course of the xt oso, we

exchanged gun fire with the suspect who was inside the boat and ultimately, the hostage rescue team of the fbi made an entry into the boat and removed the suspect who was still alive in the boat. >> can you talk about the imperative of taking him alive? how much -- >> we always want to take all suspects alive. >> i understand that, sir, but can you talk about it in the context of this particular individual? you talk about accountability, can you talk about how you want -- why you want to -- >> we always want to take somebody alive so we can find out what happened, why it happened and we can hold them for justice. >> how badly injured is the suspect? >> the hostage rescue team actually did work in trying to negotiate him out of that boat. they did try to talk him out, though he was not communicating.

i don't have that anything. >> commissioner davis, can you talk about the suspect's injuries? >> are you sure you've got you guy, this is it? >> i think that based upon our investigation at this point in time, the citizens of the city of boss on aton and this area c confident that the threat has been removed. >> suspect is in serious condition at the hospital. >> how did you know these were the suspects you were looking for? they didn't rob the 7-11, so, how did you know they were there at the same time? >> the suspects came to our attention after a vicious assassination of the police officer at m.i.t. and a subsequent robbery that occurred, where we got videotape from a gas station. the robbery actually was a carjacking. the car was taking from the scene. and officers engaged that car. we were able to put the case together.

>> was he shot by a police officer? >> the man who found him at the boat said that he was covered with blood. we assume those injuries occurred the evening before. there was an exchange of gun fire at the boat. i don't know if he was struck. there was a house in new bedford that the hostage rescue team went into because we felt that it was important to the investigation, but the suspect was not found there. >> given that he was still out there and armed -- >> can you tell us a little bit more about what you called the assassination of sean collier. was he shot in cold blood? what do you know about it? >> my assessment of that particular incident is that he was assassinated in his cruiser. >> do you though what he was doing there? >> he was responding to a call for a disturbance. >> given that he was out there, still armed, was it a mistake to give the all clear and let people go outside? couldn't they have been at risk? >>ely

we made it clear that people and come l colonel alben is here and spoke very eloquently to this. we had no information that the suspect was still in this area. he was just slightly outside of the perimeter that we set up. but in truth, we told everybody that this was a dangerous situation. and they should be cautious. this is a very dangerous time in the world. we have to use caution. that's what we asked people to do. thankfully, this man who found this suspect called us right away. did the right thing, got on 911, we were able to come in and take care of the situation. there's no report of explosives with him. but i have to tell you, i was at the scene last night, just after this incident occurred. there was an exchange of 200 rounds of gun fire. there were improvised explosive devices and hand made hand grenades thrown at the officers in the scene. this is the stuff in an urban

police department, this is almost unheard of. these officers protected the community and they protected the -- each other, when they responded to this scene. i'm so proud of the actions of the watertown police, the state police, the boston police. incredible team. >> did he have a quote in the boat -- >> he did. i can't -- i was told that there was an exchange of gun fire it was not there when he was taken out of the boat. >> no miranda warning, can you exchain that for us? >> actually, the fbi may want to explain that, it's a federal issue. >> what was the question? >> the report tonight is there was no miranda warning given, they were claiming a public safety exception. can you explain that? >> tres safety

exception in charges involving acts of terrorism, so, government has the opportunity, right now, so, i believe that the suspect has been taken to a hospital. thank you. i'm sorry? you know, what i indicated earlier is that this is still an active and ongoing investigation. we're going to be reviewing all of the evidence. before that kind of a decision is made in terms of whether or not to seek the death penalty, you review all of the evidence and it's a very thoughtful, long process that is engaged and it's the attorney general of the department of justice that makes that final decision. >> can you or colonel alben talk to us a little bit about what happened when you were on the e

chance to finally take him into custody? >> we know he didn't go straight to the boat. we -- when we set up the perimeter with the best intentions, with a loft information, that we found blood in the car that he abandoned, we found blood behind a house inside the perimeter. so, we had no information that he had gotten outside the perimeter. as we said, it was very chaotic early this morning, we had an aid, a police officer that was shot, bleeding, so, there was a lot of things going on. we thought we got the perimeter solid and we pretty much did that, but we were about one block away, so, he had to be moving a little bit after he was behind a house for a period of time that we know. >> how did you know that you could take him into custody? was he moving around? >> sure. the reason that we knew this is, our helicopter had actually detected the subject in the boat. we have a, what's called a forward-looking infrared device

on that helicopter. it picked up the heat signature, though he was underneath the shrink wrap on the boat. there was movement from that point on. and the helicopter was able to direct the tactical teams over to that area and take him into custody. >> did the police search the boat during the day? >> it was outside the perimeter during the day so it was not searched. this was the act of a citizen that went out and discovered this individual in the boat and ultimately called the watertown police department and resulted in this -- our response. >> i'm sorry? >> is there a chance the suspect won't make it? >> i don't know. i did not see him when he was taken into custody. i know he's in serious condition, but i don't know to what extent. >> i think we've taken enough questions for now. thank you. thank you very much. >> and there you have the public officials ofboic

saying we're exhausted, but we have a victory. the governor saying we will sleep easier. and this was for the victims, this was for you. we heard a couple of new details. he is said to be in serious condition. the suspect, and they also said that they had detected his presence in that boat in the backyard with one of their high tech technology devices that can see inside and register that he was there. brian ross, anything else that stood out to you? >> reporter: they talked about an exchange of gun fire, diane. they did shoot back at some point. and may have hit him when they did, i was told. so, that wasn't quite that they held off entirely. but it was exactly as martha and pierre described to us as we came forward with a special looking radar that sees thermal

images and certainly the u.s. attorney said that they have made a public security exception and not give him his miranda warning. they will question him about what larger terror cell he might or might not be part of. >> again, it was dave hennebury who went back to look at his beloved boat and saw, instead, the man suspected of being a terrorist, a bomber. and we're told he's in his 60s, he's a retired telecommunications worker. and it was his phone call that really directed the police. we are getting so many reports out of boston on facebook from people saying, that's why they call them boston's bravest, boston proud, boston grateful and also thanking everyone for their prayers, people in boston saying on facebook, now i can go to sleep. we should let you know that we're awaiting the president, who is going to come out and make a brief statement, as well. and jon karl is standing by there at the white house. jon? >> reporter: diane, what i can tell you is that the president was watching television over in

the white house residence when he saw the initial reports that there may have been a capture in this case. at that point, he walked over to the oval office, shortly after that, received the call from fbi director robert mueller, officially giving him the word that, yes, the capture had happened, they had the suspect. and let me remind you, diane, that it was just yesterday that the president was up in boston, talking at that memorial service, talking about the people behind the bombing as, quote, small stunted individuals. and he said at that point, just yesterday, yes, we will find you and yes you will face justice. now, in just a few minutes, we expect the president to be here, talking about just that. >> well, again, it is a remarkable five days that law enforcement, with the help of american citizens was able to bring this event to a close tonight. at least for this moment, until we learn more, jon. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. and keep in mind, for law

enforcement, they have to operate like this continues. they need to be sure that these two brothers were acting alone. the big search here for days has been whether or not there are connections to international terrorists, whether there are other members of a terror cell still active in the u.s. that is still not sure. as you heard earlier, pierre thomas reporting they plan to initially begin the interrogation here without miranda warnings. the president's high value interrogation group is the group that deems with situations like this. it -- questioning, interrogating potential terrorist. that's what's happening here. you have the cia involved in that, the fbi and the defense intelligence agency to try to be sure that these two did not have others that they were working with. that this, you know, is truly over. we just don't know that yet. >> and we will go straight to the president the minute we see him approach the podium. pierre thomas, you're listening? >> reporter: diane, one of the things that struck me about the press conference is, it reminded

us of the sheer violence we saw this week. the bombing. mangled people. the police chief tonight talked about 200 rounds being fired in the exchange with the suspects last night. bombs being thrown, homemade grenades. and he used a word that we don't often hear, we've been hearing too often of late, that the m.i.t. police officer was assassinated. i think we first reported today that they walked up on that security officer, that police officer, fired on him and executed him in his car. >> and, again, the police said they could detect his presence. the suspect's presence from those helicopters, presumably? >> they can do that. the extraordinary thing, and you mentioned it earlier, diane, that homeowner who went out there to check his boat and pulled back that tarp and saw that suspect there, it's incredible.

incredible that that man is alive. >> and just reminding everyone that his friend and neighborhood said that he was devastated that his boat is destroyed by all those bull lelbullet holes in i. and as we said earlier, we are sure that the american people are going to come together for dave hannebury and make sure that he gets another boat. we are sure of that. again, the president is about to come out, pierre. the next step for law enforcement tonight? >> again, recreating the last several weeks of these two suspects, finding out more about their travels, finding out more about their associates, that's the key going forward. the high value interrogation group will try to talk to this young m young man, again, he's in serious condition. unclear when they will get access to him. that is the priority going forward. there was some indication, if you listen to the press conference, that they feelhi co

of the boston area, but they cannot be sure and i can tell you, they will take no chances, federal law enforcement and the intelligence community will work 24 hours over the next few days to make sure that nothing else is coming. >> and because we're watching that podium, awaiting the president, a sentence from you, dick clark, after that press conference? >> well, i'm so happy that it turned out this way. but we do have to admit that two individuals, just two individuals, did terrorize a great metropolitan area. and horrified a lot of people who were pinned down in their houses today. and did cause enormous amount of damage and financial damage, as well. one estimate of $350 million lost today because boston was pinned down. the purpose of terrorism, lennon said, was to terror size. they certainly did that. >> and martha raddatz? >> reporter: i would say just gratified. th